NHS

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) hospitals and (b) NHS organisations Ministers in his Department have visited since taking up their posts. (185561)

The information is as follows.

Minister	Hospitals	NHS organisations
Secretary of State for Health (Alan Johnson)¹	25	11
Minister of State for Health Services (Ben Bradshaw)¹	11	13
Minister of State for Public Health (Dawn Primarolo)¹	0	9
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Services (Ann Keen)¹	12	9
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Services (Ivan Lewis)²	9	3
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Lord Darzi)¹	12	9
¹Between taking up post in June 2007 and February 2008 ²Between taking up post in June 2006 and February 2008

Volume 472: debated on Monday 25 February 2008